Post by Dub on Jun 28, 2023 18:46:22 GMT -5
… in the production of fecal material. Yes, Iowa is literally the shittiest state in the union.
This is according to Dr. Chris Jones in his book, The Swine Republic: Iowa’s Struggles with the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality.
From an article on the ModeShift Web site.
A piece from the Des Moines Register.
This is according to Dr. Chris Jones in his book, The Swine Republic: Iowa’s Struggles with the Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality.
From an article on the ModeShift Web site.
Among his most relevant pieces, also posted in 2019, is a devastating treatise that positions livestock agriculture as a primary cause of Iowa’s water pollution from E.coli and other contaminants. The piece compares the quantity of fecal waste from livestock and poultry in Iowa to wastes from Iowa’s 3.2 million human residents. “Statewide, we have around 20-24 million hogs; 250,000 dairy cattle; 1.8 million beef cattle, 80 million laying chickens, and 4.7 million turkeys,” he wrote in “Iowa’s Real Population.”
“Waste from these animals would be the equivalent-sized human population that would generate such waste is staggering:
“In total, these five species generate the waste equivalent to that produced by about 134 million people, which would place Iowa as the 10th most populous country in the world, right below Russia and right above Mexico.”
“Waste from these animals would be the equivalent-sized human population that would generate such waste is staggering:
- Iowa hogs: equivalent to 83.7 million people;
- Dairy cattle: 8.6 million people;
- Beef cattle: 25 million people;
- Laying chickens: 15 million people;
- urkeys: 900,000 people.
“In total, these five species generate the waste equivalent to that produced by about 134 million people, which would place Iowa as the 10th most populous country in the world, right below Russia and right above Mexico.”
A piece from the Des Moines Register.
